Save can be found here - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2787603729 (with lots of cheese so that ALL of the industries work as they should) Blank Map can be found here - (steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2751364425) HUGE shout out to E6GSY for the map and Biffa for the asset collection! Check out E6GSY's creations here - (steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198966593882/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710) Go check out Biffa's British build Blightea-on-the-wold if you haven't already! (ruclips.net/p/PLR5G_Kc9r-JBHlYpmfs3aJzt90FX5_yu_)
Fun fact about that roundabout cause it’s protected by various building laws the roads leading up to it are in class condition the roundabouts like the surface of the moon though 🤣
I’ve been trying to say the county needs to get more than just 20,000 people especially since Ashland is such an old town now. I don’t know the last time he went to try and get more density.
While I love Verde Beach and Greenwater County as much as the next, I really hope CPP keeps doing these! It's a little bit of history realised and brought to the masses, and I love it! ❤❤ The only thing I'd love to see added is a little talk at the end, doing some analysis on what had to be changed to make it work in the game, and maybe weird or interesting design choices that stand out.
Would love to see a UK/European themed city or region build on the channel. Being from the UK it’s great to see the local architecture and city planning style on the channel
Wow, it's so great to see you building a European city. Perhaps in the fututre you could have thematic modded builds, just like Clearwater County, but for european or asian cities?
@@МальчикФантам You nailed it here. This build was started about a month ago and I have mistakes that kind of bug me. It made me really appreciate how European/Australian creators make such great American cities. Imperitur and 2.20 especially!
@@CityPlannerPlays well they make such great American cities because American cities aren't very "unique" in ways that make the brain work. Lots of grids, and a utilitarian and on many cases corporate design philosophy. Where's many European cities, you need to build the town literally from the Roman Era and expand on it over 2 thousand years.
Beautifully and masterfully recreated. I love that you often switch things up in your content with not just your bigger cities/regions, but with also different projects and games as well as video lengths. Thanks for another rad video, looking forward to the next one!
The craziest part is this is one of the shortest videos I have seen here(I'm sure there are more I just haven't seen them, I only started Cities: Skylines recently) but it probably took him more time to get done than the longer ones!
Thank you! I love to mix it up and try new things! I love my series, but when you get an idea... I just have to go for it. I'm glad to hear that you like the change of pace!
Really liked this and loved there being a bit of history in there. I wonder if it might be possible to post a short video of how well things like land value, pollution, public service coverage and traffic are. More to see how good a job cities does at modelling this kind of planning (and if you did could you mention if you added much coverage for bus transit as this tends to be the core of urban and suburban transit in the UK outside of London).
I'll do that. There is a bit of cheese to get this to completely work that does impact things a bit, but I could explain why I had to do that. That's a good idea!
Love to see you diving into something British! This is such a unique and interesting video and build that I'm suprised I havent heard of. Hats off to you!
As someone who grew up in Letchworth, this is both fantastic, and weird. The road layout is totally recognisable, but the houses are all wrong! Garden City houses were specifically designed, and have a very specific look. I'm going to have to download this to play with!
I'm guessing that look either does NOT exist in any assets or is VERY hard to find if it does exist! Within limits of a game there is only so much you can do!
Love this series! Used to live/work in a garden city (Welwyn) this brings back great memories! I assume biffa will be very keen to copy/paste this for his UK build 😂
@@CityPlannerPlays Next time! Though I'm sure you'll move away from this and perhaps on to a Barcelona mega-block and pedestrian heavy medieval street build next :)
TBCH Phil, these are my favorite builds that you do. You leanr something about the history of city planning and you get to see a build come to life from start to finish right before your eyes...and they look so incredibly much like the real thing! Simply amazing!
Oh wow this was 8 hours ago, I was thinking I was watching something from a few years ago or something. This is magnificent. One thing I would have absolutely loved to see is what Germany had planned for their new city had the war not been lost. Theres model displayers in some museums.
I grew up in (and still live nearby to) the second garden city, Welwyn Garden City. Also the work of Ebenezer Howard. About a 20 minute drive from Letchworth, Welwyn is very similar in its design, particularly around its town centre, where the main drags are uncannily similar. Both are really nice places still to this day, although there is increased density being added to Welwyn and many planning projects are getting considerable resistance from long term residents. This was a lovely watch, thank you! Really nice to see something so close to home 🙂
I probably should have explained this in more depth, but Letchworth was first, but Welwyn is an iteration of Letchworth that really kicked the movement off. Really amazing that Ebenezer Howard was able to build more than one of these communities in his life time!
Can I just say, your editing on these is amazing. The transitions, the clear thought behind the angles while building, etc. It just adds an extra layer of polish to already great videos!
So cool! York or Newcastle would be interesting builds to see in their own right (ofc only sections of the city) as York has a Roman centre with modern surrounding, whereas Newcastle has to battle with interesting terrain! Either way love to see the work as per!
As someone from Hertfordshire this was lovely to watch, been to Letchworth a few times but more familiar with Welwyn (another garden city nearby). This video was awesome, would love to see more recreations of interesting cities!
I like this town you know, it looks good. The problem with these new towns was that as time's going on they just keep sprawling and the idea of giving everyone a bit of nature isn't a thing in them they're just concrete jungles with nothing to do, no industry and any greenery is manufactured and pretty unnatural.
This was really nice and i would love more content like this - i just need more of you in the video! Use a video like this to really talk about the 'nerdy' planner thing - i think a lot of people would love that!
Love to see this! I was already so excited when you mentioned Letchworth back when you built Lewis Garden City and hoped this would happen someday!! I live 20 mins by train from there and it's such a cool place. If anyone reading this is ever in the area, there's a really well-curated small museum (appointment only) about the town's conception and history.
I always love these little builds! It’s so cool seeing real historical city layouts implemented into the game and the editing is awesome with the overlay
I love your time lapse edits. Working on an area from a single camera angle, then beautifully transitioning to a different angle - looks really professional!
I really dig this type of video never thought it would interest me since i'm just a novice builder in cities skylines but the more i watch your videos you inspire me to learn more thank you!
There I am playing Cities Skylines, watching City Planner Plays on RUclips, recreating my town in Cities Skylines. If you look closely at 15:41 you can see me in one of the houses on the left of the screen. (Only kidding). One fun factoid, the roundabout in Letchworth claims to be the first roundabout ever.
Another fascinating project. I love this game so much- it has so much potential and allows players to be creative in an endless number of possibilities. I do like the recreation of real or never realised real world projects/cities.
I was in Letchworth just two weeks ago for a wedding. A car was just ahead of me in limp mode and we had the joy of traveling around the 'First round about' at 5 mph. Very fun. Loved the video, thank you for the great content.
Oh, this is epic! Informational, educational, inspirational, and lastly, FUN! Being able to learn a bit more about the historical aspects of city planning and how it has evolved from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century is fascinating (at least for me!). The storyline gives the highlights of the concepts and then you see the city blossom before your eyes! I'm not sure if you're using the real populations mod but it was interesting to see the traffic issues in some places and how the city breathed. With all due respect...more, please!
I love that topic, here in Austria, we do have Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the 20th century green living enthusiast. Vienna in generall is one of the greenest citys on the planet. You should take a look at the "Donauinsel" or "Danube Island" project that got realised here.
I loved every second of this video. I would stare at this town for hours, it is so beautifully planned and therefore built on the game that it would be entertaining just watching it living by their self!
This is great, lived the history too. Made me think of New Addington here in Croydon and how it was originally designed and built to be a garden village until that idea was scrapped after WW2. Would be cool to see developments like this built to the original vision. I hope you do more of these videos.
I love these short video concepts, but my favorite part was probably the 'first roundabout' section I love the little extra random history facts and if you do more videos like these it would be nice to see those if they pop up in the builds.
Oh my god this is AMAZING! I've always found Letchworth Garden City to be very fascinating and I'm so glad you built it!! Maybe you'd like to build the UK's FIRST New Town, Stevenage, next?? Edit: Oh if only Letchworth had that many bus routes in real life....
If they had just shifted the map a little to the south... you can fit Hitchin, Stevenage, Letchworth and Baldock into 81 tiles with RAF Henlow in the northwest corner. Centre on long. -0.22, lat. 51.95.
I’m a town planner in the UK (a town called Kings Lynn in England). It’s awesome to see you look into planning here! I always love learning how you do it in the US from your videos!
That's awesome! Interestingly, I looked at a house on a road called Kings Lynn at one point a million years ago. Had no idea the name came from a city in the UK! Very interesting!!
Awesome build! How do you overlay the real map within the game? I always wanted to recreate a real city, but doing it from scratch, it discourages me 😅
@@patrickwilliams1206 WAIT! He did that IN GAME?! I thought it was just a video editing thing! Now where/how(more specific than "on the internet") to find these kinds of maps!
@@JacksonOwex Yeah, its been a mod for quite a while now. You can change its position, transparency etc. It'll take any PNG thats 1800x1800px i believe
Wow, your content has come so far since the beginning! I loved the included the history, real world examples, and your game skill combined with the chill video production. I'd happily watch more. Thank you.
I live in a city in Brazil's countryside that was designed and developed by an English company. It follows this "garden city" design and was a new city built from scratch in the 1960s. Great to see where these ideas come from!
Lived in Letchworth back in 2001, didn't really think it was all that special at the time but then again I'd come from the very lovely and picturesque Cotswolds.
It would be cool to see you take one of these and expand upon it! Like a fictional this is how the city grew and expanded over the next 100 years but completely fictional, like what you would do/add if you were the next city planner of that city at that time.
Now there's something you don't see everyday. A CS map of my hometown. Well done! I really enjoyed watching this. How things, even here, have changed. The cargo railhead loop is not longer there. All the town's light industry is still centred around the Works Road area however. Home to Autoglym and Kwik Fit HQ's Standalone Farm, as well as being a working farm, is also a kids petting zoo and thus a local attraction in it's own right. The biggest change is now the town is much expanded, with estates such as Jackmans (slightly sketchy), Lordship (slightly posh), and Grange (mine) all being added in the last 50 or so years. Letchworth today now forms a continuous link between the neighbourhood towns of Hitchin and Baldock. Ebenezer Howard was also instrumental in the formation of Welwyn Garden City just a few miles away, and was on the working committee with fellow reformer George Cadbury in the creation of Bournville Village in Birmingham, at the turn of the 20th Century. Letchworth Heritage Foundation, a charitable organisation, serve as official custodians to ensure the continuity of community and town framework, still within the spirit of Howard's original vision, to this day
i studied Town Planning many years ago and now working in a remote sensing consultancy company. I enjoy your video and probably u do lots of tutorial and teaching basic urban planning at the same time. It's good actually as u can give clear direction to general public audience about the important of balancing in City planning. As i travel i can see many cities is badly plan and don't actually have good planning for future as the bad impact of bad planning resulting in heavy pollution, congestion and traffic problem. Sad to see that happen as it hinder the progress relatively in everything. I love travel to Japan, Scandinavian countries as they have the best Urban Planning in the world.
Very cool, this is a very faithful representation of Letchworth. I've lived in Hertfordshire, the county Letchworth and the second Garden City, Welwyn are both in, my whole life. Indeed I bought my first ever home in Welwyn! An interesting fact is that Ebenezer Howard was a Quaker, and the centre of Welywn, less so Letchworth, has a distinct lack of pubs and bars for a British town of its size. This is supposedly due to the town charter that allotted only a tiny amount of space for premises that could have a licence to sell alcohol. Unfortunately that meant the idea of a self-reliant city was lost somewhat, as I can confirm I spent plenty of evenings on the train to the Big Smoke of London to find a better choice of drinking establishments :)
As someone who grew up in Letchworth Garden City and worked at places like standalone farm I can definitely say that you have done an amazing job mate😄
I was hoping you'd do this for Letchworth or Welwyn GC when I heard you mention you had a British project in the pipeline. It turned out even better than I imagined. The detailing was just stunning!
Love this episode would love to see more builds like this explore the old and the new of city planning and design. Next suggestion would be to recreate the city surrounded by parks.
So excited to watch this. Had to stop and comment. My wife and I play and watch your videos, we live 20 minutes from Letchworth and my wife lived there for a number of years! Excited for this video!
The Soviets largely put the ideas of Garden Cities into practice. They of course adapted them using what was learned but anyone interested should look up Sotsgorod. Many east European cities to this day has huge amounts of greenery, dense living without feeling like sardines in a can, low noise pollution, among other things. They of course had their faults but so does everything. Nowa Huta is particularly well known as a prime example of one of these communities (a suburb in Poland). Many of these cities were built and had plans which went as far as industries, due of course to the semi central planning of the Eastern Block. Most of the garden city inspired suburbs outside the soviet countries were limited in that respect.
One thing I'd add to add to realism is a retail park on the edge of the city. This would normally have a big anchor supermarket and identical modern large-format stores featuring national brands like Marks & Spencer, Poundland, TK Maxx, Dunelm, Halfords etc. Tonnes of parking surrounding them with lacklustre public transport facilities too.
I have been to Letchworth in Feburary in 2020. I was living in England at the time was has taken my first course in Urban Planning. We went over the Garden City topic early on. Since I was near by, I decided to see how it is now. Sadly, I have went on a Sunday where shops were closed or they closed early. It was really lovely place to be. Felt like a historic district of a small town. I would like to visit again to get a more immersive experience.
So I actually live in Letchworth, so was fascinated to see this. Unfortunately my house was only built 6 years ago so it was never going to appear on your map. Tempted to have a play with the save game and adapt it though. Thanks for all your great Cities Skylines content.
I hope an history or urban planning professor picks up on this and uses your videos with an educational purpose. As an history major and as somebody who has always been interested in the science and history of urban plan I love what you do! Thank you for being such a great source of information as well as an infinite source of chill entertainment CPP! Quick question have you ever thought of making a video similar to this one but tackling older cities that needed to adapt an historical city center to modern needs? I live in a Portuguese city with several centuries of history that has been tackling that challenge (with not much success) for a long time and I would love to hear your take on that!
My paternal grandparents live in Letchworth and my dad grew up there! It's so weird to me that it's considered so significant in the history of urban planning because it's just... the town where my grandparents live lol. It's a pleasant enough place with lots of trees (and you did a great job there! so many!) but it's also kind of boring and has a bit of odd atmosphere to it. You've done a fantastic job translating it into the game, although I will say that you've definitely over done it with the density in a lot of areas! Great video as always though!
I loved this. A little more explanation and tour on the workings of the city and how well it does in CS after the build wouldn't have been disliked. Maybe a comments video to follow wouldn't hurt.
Mad cause I used to live right by letchworth and used to work for the heritage there (most of the sites etc) and the museum the heritage has in Letchworth has a cracking bit of history about the building of the garden city!
This was great and really showed your skill, as well as being informative, keep up your videos they are always a pleasure to watch. Would be nice to know how the town functioned once you built it in the game. how many squares it took up, maybe someone if using the 81 tiles mod could put this on the outskirts of their main build if doing a UK theme...
dam bro I give you so much respect for the amount of patients you have... I have barely enough patients to edit my videos for yt n that's just sim drifting and racing. let alone creating a city then editing and when I play cities skylines, I have the patience to build til everything gets to congested (which isn't long lol) then I give up and just watch you build haha. I can never get a good looking and functional city happening. I dunno or should I say I'm not creative enough to leave spaces for when rail and other things need to implemented into my city 😢
I used to live near Letchworth. This was a great video to watch! You should try some of the new towns like Harlow, Stevenage or Milton Keynes. (preferably Harlow). Great vid as always!
Fantastic build, I would have liked to have seen you go over the pros/cons at the end, such as the dense traffic spots that seemed to have appeared, but other than that a wonderful video!
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Save can be found here - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2787603729 (with lots of cheese so that ALL of the industries work as they should)
Blank Map can be found here - (steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2751364425)
HUGE shout out to E6GSY for the map and Biffa for the asset collection!
Check out E6GSY's creations here - (steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198966593882/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710)
Go check out Biffa's British build Blightea-on-the-wold if you haven't already! (ruclips.net/p/PLR5G_Kc9r-JBHlYpmfs3aJzt90FX5_yu_)
Hey what program did you use to get the overlay that you traced out for your map? Thanks for your videos,they're awesome!
Huge "should out"
Yes, I'm wondering too about how u traced with that overlay? I would love to use something like that!
fun
@@itsthatoneguy2921 Wondering the same thing, would be really handy for some of the saves I was considering making.
That was fantastic. And great to see the first roundabout ever! Great job CPP :-)
Are we seeing your European city today?
Shouldn't you be done more work on your English builts Biffee ;-)
Will we see you build a garden city in Blightea-on-the-Wold? 😉
Thank you, Biffa! And thank you for letting me borrow your asset collection!
Fun fact about that roundabout cause it’s protected by various building laws the roads leading up to it are in class condition the roundabouts like the surface of the moon though 🤣
I'd love to see a planned development like this pop up in Clearwater County and see that contrasted with a rival New Urbanism project in Ashwood.
I’ve been trying to say the county needs to get more than just 20,000 people especially since Ashland is such an old town now. I don’t know the last time he went to try and get more density.
The next city will be... For real, not the April fools one
While I love Verde Beach and Greenwater County as much as the next, I really hope CPP keeps doing these! It's a little bit of history realised and brought to the masses, and I love it! ❤❤
The only thing I'd love to see added is a little talk at the end, doing some analysis on what had to be changed to make it work in the game, and maybe weird or interesting design choices that stand out.
Yeah the added little talk. Cpp got the most relaxing voice... puts me to bed like a lil baby
If you haven't checked out @donoteat01 's series on franklin from pre-history to present, definitely do!
ruclips.net/video/KTfuA2hXi8s/видео.html
I actually wanted to do that for this one, but didn't have much of a voice. I'm going to do so on the next one!
Would love to see a UK/European themed city or region build on the channel. Being from the UK it’s great to see the local architecture and city planning style on the channel
Wow, it's so great to see you building a European city. Perhaps in the fututre you could have thematic modded builds, just like Clearwater County, but for european or asian cities?
That would take alot of intellectual effort
@@МальчикФантам You nailed it here. This build was started about a month ago and I have mistakes that kind of bug me. It made me really appreciate how European/Australian creators make such great American cities. Imperitur and 2.20 especially!
@@CityPlannerPlays well they make such great American cities because American cities aren't very "unique" in ways that make the brain work.
Lots of grids, and a utilitarian and on many cases corporate design philosophy.
Where's many European cities, you need to build the town literally from the Roman Era and expand on it over 2 thousand years.
My town is one of these green cities, the layout is unmistakable. It's a wonderful place to live, not many places in the UK feel quite like it.
I can imagine! I would totally live in one of these communities!
As someone who used to work in Letchworth, this is great to see!
Me too, back in 1989-92! (LET01?) Welwyn Garden City, not that far south, is just as fascinating in its own way.
As someone who's lived in this area my entire life, it's really odd!
Beautifully and masterfully recreated. I love that you often switch things up in your content with not just your bigger cities/regions, but with also different projects and games as well as video lengths. Thanks for another rad video, looking forward to the next one!
The craziest part is this is one of the shortest videos I have seen here(I'm sure there are more I just haven't seen them, I only started Cities: Skylines recently) but it probably took him more time to get done than the longer ones!
Thank you! I love to mix it up and try new things! I love my series, but when you get an idea... I just have to go for it. I'm glad to hear that you like the change of pace!
Really liked this and loved there being a bit of history in there. I wonder if it might be possible to post a short video of how well things like land value, pollution, public service coverage and traffic are. More to see how good a job cities does at modelling this kind of planning (and if you did could you mention if you added much coverage for bus transit as this tends to be the core of urban and suburban transit in the UK outside of London).
I'll do that. There is a bit of cheese to get this to completely work that does impact things a bit, but I could explain why I had to do that. That's a good idea!
Love to see you diving into something British! This is such a unique and interesting video and build that I'm suprised I havent heard of. Hats off to you!
As someone who grew up in Letchworth, this is both fantastic, and weird. The road layout is totally recognisable, but the houses are all wrong! Garden City houses were specifically designed, and have a very specific look.
I'm going to have to download this to play with!
I'm guessing that look either does NOT exist in any assets or is VERY hard to find if it does exist! Within limits of a game there is only so much you can do!
I love when you do these types of videos. And the fact about the first roundabout was so neat.
Love this series! Used to live/work in a garden city (Welwyn) this brings back great memories!
I assume biffa will be very keen to copy/paste this for his UK build 😂
I was very, very close to building Welwyn! I couldn't find a plan clean enough, or I might have!
@@CityPlannerPlays Next time! Though I'm sure you'll move away from this and perhaps on to a Barcelona mega-block and pedestrian heavy medieval street build next :)
TBCH Phil, these are my favorite builds that you do. You leanr something about the history of city planning and you get to see a build come to life from start to finish right before your eyes...and they look so incredibly much like the real thing! Simply amazing!
Oh wow this was 8 hours ago, I was thinking I was watching something from a few years ago or something. This is magnificent.
One thing I would have absolutely loved to see is what Germany had planned for their new city had the war not been lost. Theres model displayers in some museums.
This needs more likes! That would be so cool to see what a city would have been! Please thumbs this up!!
I grew up in (and still live nearby to) the second garden city, Welwyn Garden City. Also the work of Ebenezer Howard. About a 20 minute drive from Letchworth, Welwyn is very similar in its design, particularly around its town centre, where the main drags are uncannily similar. Both are really nice places still to this day, although there is increased density being added to Welwyn and many planning projects are getting considerable resistance from long term residents. This was a lovely watch, thank you! Really nice to see something so close to home 🙂
I probably should have explained this in more depth, but Letchworth was first, but Welwyn is an iteration of Letchworth that really kicked the movement off. Really amazing that Ebenezer Howard was able to build more than one of these communities in his life time!
Having had lived in Letchworth, it was nice to see the old place get a city skylines makeover.. Great job.. CCP
Thank you!!
Can I just say, your editing on these is amazing. The transitions, the clear thought behind the angles while building, etc. It just adds an extra layer of polish to already great videos!
Thank you so much!
Fantastic! Super satisfying to watch and to learn about this garden city, and I love how you made it a functional city skylines city too!
My goto is a grid-style of building, so I love seeing these different build styles. The overlay mod and building is so satisfying to watch take shape
So cool! York or Newcastle would be interesting builds to see in their own right (ofc only sections of the city) as York has a Roman centre with modern surrounding, whereas Newcastle has to battle with interesting terrain! Either way love to see the work as per!
As someone from Hertfordshire this was lovely to watch, been to Letchworth a few times but more familiar with Welwyn (another garden city nearby). This video was awesome, would love to see more recreations of interesting cities!
I like this town you know, it looks good. The problem with these new towns was that as time's going on they just keep sprawling and the idea of giving everyone a bit of nature isn't a thing in them they're just concrete jungles with nothing to do, no industry and any greenery is manufactured and pretty unnatural.
I love this style of video! I’d love to hear some commentary on your thoughts about the city, or maybe some of the history while you’re making it
This was really nice and i would love more content like this - i just need more of you in the video! Use a video like this to really talk about the 'nerdy' planner thing - i think a lot of people would love that!
That was awesome 👏 looks great and never new map overlays were possible 👍👌
Love to see this! I was already so excited when you mentioned Letchworth back when you built Lewis Garden City and hoped this would happen someday!! I live 20 mins by train from there and it's such a cool place. If anyone reading this is ever in the area, there's a really well-curated small museum (appointment only) about the town's conception and history.
I always love these little builds! It’s so cool seeing real historical city layouts implemented into the game and the editing is awesome with the overlay
I love your time lapse edits. Working on an area from a single camera angle, then beautifully transitioning to a different angle - looks really professional!
I really dig this type of video never thought it would interest me since i'm just a novice builder in cities skylines but the more i watch your videos you inspire me to learn more thank you!
There I am playing Cities Skylines, watching City Planner Plays on RUclips, recreating my town in Cities Skylines. If you look closely at 15:41 you can see me in one of the houses on the left of the screen. (Only kidding).
One fun factoid, the roundabout in Letchworth claims to be the first roundabout ever.
Another fascinating project. I love this game so much- it has so much potential and allows players to be creative in an endless number of possibilities. I do like the recreation of real or never realised real world projects/cities.
Ever since you put a quasi-garden city in VB, I've been obsessed with the concept. Love that you made one in CS!
I was in Letchworth just two weeks ago for a wedding. A car was just ahead of me in limp mode and we had the joy of traveling around the 'First round about' at 5 mph. Very fun.
Loved the video, thank you for the great content.
This was fantastic to watch! Love the history behind it.
Oh, this is epic! Informational, educational, inspirational, and lastly, FUN! Being able to learn a bit more about the historical aspects of city planning and how it has evolved from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century is fascinating (at least for me!). The storyline gives the highlights of the concepts and then you see the city blossom before your eyes! I'm not sure if you're using the real populations mod but it was interesting to see the traffic issues in some places and how the city breathed. With all due respect...more, please!
The effort you put into this is incredible. Big kudos to you, good sir.
I really enjoy the historical perspective of planning you've brought to your content and sharing in this build. I can't wait to see the next one...
This was cool to see and the population was pretty spot on. I always appreciate a quick history lesson as well.
I used to live in Letchworth! Tried recreating it in city skylines a while back and failed miserably, you on the other hand did a fantastic job!
I love that topic, here in Austria, we do have Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the 20th century green living enthusiast. Vienna in generall is one of the greenest citys on the planet. You should take a look at the "Donauinsel" or "Danube Island" project that got realised here.
Wow! I love to see projects like this that have been fully realized by other people. I love all of your series!
I loved every second of this video. I would stare at this town for hours, it is so beautifully planned and therefore built on the game that it would be entertaining just watching it living by their self!
This is amazing! So creative how you made the CS design with the actual city plans overlay. Well done sir 😬
This is BY FAR the kind of content that most interests me...much more than the gameplay aspect. I love it.
Love these sort of videos, with the historical and educational elements based on unique real world locations.
This was great! I love seeing these plans come to life. And that ending song was going off fr
I wish Savannah had the transit system this city has. Savannah is so beautiful and almost walkable. Savannah really needs a metro.
This is great, lived the history too. Made me think of New Addington here in Croydon and how it was originally designed and built to be a garden village until that idea was scrapped after WW2.
Would be cool to see developments like this built to the original vision. I hope you do more of these videos.
This is so awesome! Love that you've done another of these, and that it's a UK city too! Thanks Phil, from all of us here in Blighty!
I love these short video concepts, but my favorite part was probably the 'first roundabout' section I love the little extra random history facts and if you do more videos like these it would be nice to see those if they pop up in the builds.
One of if not the best ive seen yet,very very nice to watch.
Was this a stream? I'd love to hear your building process and liberties used to recreate this map. Great work!!
Oh my god this is AMAZING! I've always found Letchworth Garden City to be very fascinating and I'm so glad you built it!! Maybe you'd like to build the UK's FIRST New Town, Stevenage, next??
Edit: Oh if only Letchworth had that many bus routes in real life....
If they had just shifted the map a little to the south... you can fit Hitchin, Stevenage, Letchworth and Baldock into 81 tiles with RAF Henlow in the northwest corner. Centre on long. -0.22, lat. 51.95.
I’m a town planner in the UK (a town called Kings Lynn in England). It’s awesome to see you look into planning here! I always love learning how you do it in the US from your videos!
That's awesome! Interestingly, I looked at a house on a road called Kings Lynn at one point a million years ago. Had no idea the name came from a city in the UK! Very interesting!!
@@CityPlannerPlays Oh wow, that’s very random, who knew we had such a presence! 😂
Awesome build! How do you overlay the real map within the game? I always wanted to recreate a real city, but doing it from scratch, it discourages me 😅
It's called image overlay on the steam workshop
@@patrickwilliams1206 Thanks man!
@@patrickwilliams1206 WAIT! He did that IN GAME?! I thought it was just a video editing thing! Now where/how(more specific than "on the internet") to find these kinds of maps!
@@JacksonOwex Yeah, its been a mod for quite a while now. You can change its position, transparency etc. It'll take any PNG thats 1800x1800px i believe
I figured there was a mod for the overlay, what blows me away is the ability to place and adjust all those roads while being so zoomed out.
Wow, your content has come so far since the beginning! I loved the included the history, real world examples, and your game skill combined with the chill video production. I'd happily watch more. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm always trying to improve, so this means a ton to me!
I live in a city in Brazil's countryside that was designed and developed by an English company. It follows this "garden city" design and was a new city built from scratch in the 1960s. Great to see where these ideas come from!
That was stunning! I enjoy all of your videos, but these builds that follow real city plans are my favorite!!
Loved this so much! The history lesson, maps, and chill music just makes my soul happy!
Lived in Letchworth back in 2001, didn't really think it was all that special at the time but then again I'd come from the very lovely and picturesque Cotswolds.
This would have been a monstrous effort to both build and edit, so props to you, Phil and your editor/s!
I love these historic videos! ❤️
It would be cool to see you take one of these and expand upon it! Like a fictional this is how the city grew and expanded over the next 100 years but completely fictional, like what you would do/add if you were the next city planner of that city at that time.
Now there's something you don't see everyday. A CS map of my hometown. Well done! I really enjoyed watching this.
How things, even here, have changed. The cargo railhead loop is not longer there. All the town's light industry is still centred around the Works Road area however.
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Standalone Farm, as well as being a working farm, is also a kids petting zoo and thus a local attraction in it's own right.
The biggest change is now the town is much expanded, with estates such as Jackmans (slightly sketchy), Lordship (slightly posh), and Grange (mine) all being added in the last 50 or so years.
Letchworth today now forms a continuous link between the neighbourhood towns of Hitchin and Baldock.
Ebenezer Howard was also instrumental in the formation of Welwyn Garden City just a few miles away, and was on the working committee with fellow reformer George Cadbury in the creation of Bournville Village in Birmingham, at the turn of the 20th Century.
Letchworth Heritage Foundation, a charitable organisation, serve as official custodians to ensure the continuity of community and town framework, still within the spirit of Howard's original vision, to this day
i studied Town Planning many years ago and now working in a remote sensing consultancy company. I enjoy your video and probably u do lots of tutorial and teaching basic urban planning at the same time. It's good actually as u can give clear direction to general public audience about the important of balancing in City planning. As i travel i can see many cities is badly plan and don't actually have good planning for future as the bad impact of bad planning resulting in heavy pollution, congestion and traffic problem. Sad to see that happen as it hinder the progress relatively in everything. I love travel to Japan, Scandinavian countries as they have the best Urban Planning in the world.
Very cool, this is a very faithful representation of Letchworth. I've lived in Hertfordshire, the county Letchworth and the second Garden City, Welwyn are both in, my whole life. Indeed I bought my first ever home in Welwyn! An interesting fact is that Ebenezer Howard was a Quaker, and the centre of Welywn, less so Letchworth, has a distinct lack of pubs and bars for a British town of its size. This is supposedly due to the town charter that allotted only a tiny amount of space for premises that could have a licence to sell alcohol.
Unfortunately that meant the idea of a self-reliant city was lost somewhat, as I can confirm I spent plenty of evenings on the train to the Big Smoke of London to find a better choice of drinking establishments :)
As someone who grew up in Letchworth Garden City and worked at places like standalone farm I can definitely say that you have done an amazing job mate😄
I was hoping you'd do this for Letchworth or Welwyn GC when I heard you mention you had a British project in the pipeline. It turned out even better than I imagined. The detailing was just stunning!
Love this episode would love to see more builds like this explore the old and the new of city planning and design. Next suggestion would be to recreate the city surrounded by parks.
Loving the history bits! I think that the real garden city not being geometrically perfect in practice is really interesting too!
So excited to watch this. Had to stop and comment. My wife and I play and watch your videos, we live 20 minutes from Letchworth and my wife lived there for a number of years! Excited for this video!
Love all your builds and videos CPP, but this is next level. Just amazing, thank you.
The Soviets largely put the ideas of Garden Cities into practice. They of course adapted them using what was learned but anyone interested should look up Sotsgorod.
Many east European cities to this day has huge amounts of greenery, dense living without feeling like sardines in a can, low noise pollution, among other things.
They of course had their faults but so does everything. Nowa Huta is particularly well known as a prime example of one of these communities (a suburb in Poland).
Many of these cities were built and had plans which went as far as industries, due of course to the semi central planning of the Eastern Block. Most of the garden city inspired suburbs outside the soviet countries were limited in that respect.
One thing I'd add to add to realism is a retail park on the edge of the city. This would normally have a big anchor supermarket and identical modern large-format stores featuring national brands like Marks & Spencer, Poundland, TK Maxx, Dunelm, Halfords etc. Tonnes of parking surrounding them with lacklustre public transport facilities too.
I have been to Letchworth in Feburary in 2020. I was living in England at the time was has taken my first course in Urban Planning. We went over the Garden City topic early on. Since I was near by, I decided to see how it is now. Sadly, I have went on a Sunday where shops were closed or they closed early. It was really lovely place to be. Felt like a historic district of a small town. I would like to visit again to get a more immersive experience.
So I actually live in Letchworth, so was fascinated to see this. Unfortunately my house was only built 6 years ago so it was never going to appear on your map. Tempted to have a play with the save game and adapt it though. Thanks for all your great Cities Skylines content.
I hope an history or urban planning professor picks up on this and uses your videos with an educational purpose. As an history major and as somebody who has always been interested in the science and history of urban plan I love what you do! Thank you for being such a great source of information as well as an infinite source of chill entertainment CPP!
Quick question have you ever thought of making a video similar to this one but tackling older cities that needed to adapt an historical city center to modern needs? I live in a Portuguese city with several centuries of history that has been tackling that challenge (with not much success) for a long time and I would love to hear your take on that!
My paternal grandparents live in Letchworth and my dad grew up there! It's so weird to me that it's considered so significant in the history of urban planning because it's just... the town where my grandparents live lol. It's a pleasant enough place with lots of trees (and you did a great job there! so many!) but it's also kind of boring and has a bit of odd atmosphere to it. You've done a fantastic job translating it into the game, although I will say that you've definitely over done it with the density in a lot of areas! Great video as always though!
I loved this. A little more explanation and tour on the workings of the city and how well it does in CS after the build wouldn't have been disliked. Maybe a comments video to follow wouldn't hurt.
Mad cause I used to live right by letchworth and used to work for the heritage there (most of the sites etc) and the museum the heritage has in Letchworth has a cracking bit of history about the building of the garden city!
If this is your definition of a #short, then keep it up! Loved this!! More please!!!
This was great and really showed your skill, as well as being informative, keep up your videos they are always a pleasure to watch. Would be nice to know how the town functioned once you built it in the game. how many squares it took up, maybe someone if using the 81 tiles mod could put this on the outskirts of their main build if doing a UK theme...
Phil you absolutely killed it with this one! Grand slam! Awesome awesome awesome.
Which DLCs have you used?? BTW this city is greatly designed. Hat's off to your perfection.
I'd love to see a commentary after the build and see how much population there is and how the transport is working and your thoughts on the plan!
This is unbelievably amazing.
Wish I could like it one million times
Great build, me and my mates live here can't wait to show them the save file!
Great again! I would love to see more of your input on videos like these like from the beginning of the video.
dam bro I give you so much respect for the amount of patients you have... I have barely enough patients to edit my videos for yt n that's just sim drifting and racing. let alone creating a city then editing and when I play cities skylines, I have the patience to build til everything gets to congested (which isn't long lol) then I give up and just watch you build haha. I can never get a good looking and functional city happening. I dunno or should I say I'm not creative enough to leave spaces for when rail and other things need to implemented into my city 😢
Excellent content as always ! super cool to see people talk about garden cities !!
I love this video format! Keep it coming
I used to live near Letchworth. This was a great video to watch!
You should try some of the new towns like Harlow, Stevenage or Milton Keynes. (preferably Harlow).
Great vid as always!
This is so cool!!
I grew up in Wellen Garden city not too far from there.
Nice build. Glad to see my home town represented.
I doubt I had any part in this but I have suggested this in the past so thank you for doing this!
Wow that was really really cool. It's like watching Bob Ross do a painting or something. Masterful skills!
Loved seeing a local town recreated. Great work!
Fantastic build, I would have liked to have seen you go over the pros/cons at the end, such as the dense traffic spots that seemed to have appeared, but other than that a wonderful video!